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A couple of Malcolm Bricklin-centric projects would combine exquisite coolness with eternal torment (particularly when one is an inexplicably right-hand-drive SV-1 and the other is a basket-case Subaru 360), and isn't that what the Hell Garage is all about?

However, the real hell comes when you tackle a project that was never imported to your country when new, and it gets even better if that project came from a part of the world considered to be part of Rappin' Ron Reagan's Evil Empire. Yes, communist cars!

Now, just about every car freak knows about the GAZ-21 Volga, which is sort of the '55 Chevy of Soviet cars, and of course there's also the iconic East German Trabant.

The Hell Garage Demons, however, sneer at such obvious choices; if we're going to torment you with nightmarish Warsaw Pact machines, they're going to be weird examples of the genre, from the final days before the Berlin Wall collapsed, and they're going to be cheap!

The seller, who appears to be ignorant of the eBay Manual of Style conventions for writing car descriptions, writes in complete sentences using proper punctuation, and we're so disturbed by the lack of 60-point flashing yellow text in ALLCAPS that we couldn't read the entire novella-length description.

Czech auto manufacturer Škoda is part of the Volkswagen empire now, but the company has been building cars since 1905.

During the early part of the Cold War, with then-Czechoslovakia under Soviet domination, Škoda built 1201s, Felicias and Octavias and even exported a few to North America.

By the 1970s, however, you weren't going to see any commie Czechmobiles on the streets of the U.S. of A., and even the Canadians preferred Ladas to Škodas. That makes this 1987 Škoda 120 GLS in Tulsa perhaps the only one of its kind in the entire country.

For such a rare car, you'd expect to pay a huge sum, no? No! At the time of this writing, the top bid is $361 with no reserve. Just imagine, Václav Havel himself may have ridden in this car . . . though you'd probably find the work of another Czech novelist to be a more accurate portrayal of the nightmares adventures you're sure to experience once you drag this car into the Hell Garage.

The seller, who appears to be ignorant of the eBay Manual of Style conventions for writing car descriptions, writes in complete sentences using proper punctuation, and we're so disturbed by the lack of 60-point flashing yellow text in ALLCAPS that we couldn't read the entire novella-length description.

After skimming, here's our summary: Rust. Parked outdoors since 1994. More rust. The good news: Possibly valid Oklahoma title! So, you pay a few hundred bucks for this piece of history, then spend many thousands having parts shipped from the Czech Republic, then many more thousands shipping a couple of complete parts cars over, and so on. When you're done, nobody will know what you're driving, but who cares? History!

Compared to the miserable Trabant, the Wartburg was quite luxurious.

After Germany was split into East and West at the end of World War II, the Westerners went back to building Volkswagens and BMWs and Mercedes-Benzes and so on, while the Easterners had to make do with Soviet imports and clanking prewar survivors. EMW and IFA made some cars, but they weren't available for ordinary working stiffs, nor were they exported in large numbers.

In 1958, however, the Wartburg name was revived for a series of cars using a three-cylinder two-stroke engine (with only seven moving parts).

Compared with the miserable Trabant, the Wartburg was quite luxurious, and the 353 was built for 21 years. Being a two-stroker, it wasn't likely to pass any sort of emission-control standard in the First World after about 1968, which means that this 1984 Wartburg 353 sedan in Florida (go here if the listing disappears) must be some sort of mutant gray-market import and thus impossible a bit difficult to register anywhere in the United States.

You'll solve that problem, comrade, just as you'll solve so many other problems associated with this project! The seller provides many photographs, some of which aren't blurry, and he or she also obeys the traditions of Craigslist car-listing description by providing nearly as many punctuation marks as words, while imparting very little useful information about the car: "RUNS & DRIVES............. Search this car online...... There are not many for sale.... This is a very rare car..... Serious buyers only----- would make a great collectors item....... Minor rust but is in over all good condition in and OUT.... STARTS UP & DRIVES........"

So, there's rust. It runs. No mention of title or registration, probably for good reason. As a helpful aid to Craigslist searchers, however, the seller does provide some extra keywords: "FORD CHEVY BMW C230 335I ESCALADE SUT SUV H1 H2 H3 TRUCK CAR COUPE SEDAN AUTO MANUAL TRADES FREE IPAD IPHONE." This is so anyone searching for an Escalade or an iPhone will find this Wartburg in their results.

So, a running mid-'80s East German car in Florida for only $2,500. How hard could it be?